Alright, i'm looking to get explosive power

[Bedlam]

I have a gym membership and need ideas to condition myself for boxing. I've been doing 2 minute sets of push ups, situps, reverse crunch, russian twists, and various compound exercises (like squats.)

I need advice on ways to workout in a manner that's gonna help me with explosive power. Would doing heavy weight trying to push as fast as I can then stopping before i'm fully extended help me generate it? By heavy weight I don't mean anywhere near my max, I mean heavy for doing fast reps.

Think im barking up the right tree? I wanna get the right muscles trained correctly so when I do start boxing and learn how to throw my weight behind a punch i'll have an edge.

[rskumm21]

I have a gym membership and need ideas to condition myself for boxing. I've been doing 2 minute sets of push ups, situps, reverse crunch, russian twists, and various compound exercises (like squats.)

I need advice on ways to workout in a manner that's gonna help me with explosive power. Would doing heavy weight trying to push as fast as I can then stopping before i'm fully extended help me generate it? By heavy weight I don't mean anywhere near my max, I mean heavy for doing fast reps.

Think im barking up the right tree? I wanna get the right muscles trained correctly so when I do start boxing and learn how to throw my weight behind a punch i'll have an edge.

plyo homie.

[thatjamaicanguy]

yea, plyometrics was my first thought

plyo gives you that explosive reaction, but power comes from the legs/hips

[kaspanz]

explosive power

mmm plyometrics are one of the most acknowledged and accepted ways of training what you seem to be asking for... i would warn you about doing to much isolated muscle work though, the majority of boxers use systems involving kinetic linking or in other words making the extremitie's and indeed the whole body work as one, so by isolating muscle work such as lateral shoulder raises it could actually have a detrimental effect on things like power speed reflexes flow etc. that being said awhile ago i decided to work hard on my core muscles and i found that i was far more capable of throwing 6 7 8 hooks in a row of the same hand in quick repetition than previously i learnt this by watching old tapes of ali shadow boxing with his one two left hook combo which he kind or swings rather than turning the body with it which is more akin to frazier for example. this is a outfighter way of throwing it then because it adds range and is suitable for speed fighters.

[TheNegation]

Oly Lifting & Plyometrics /thread

[EzzardFan]

Sets of pushups, hindu squats, and inverted rows till fail. Do as many variations of pushup and row as you can. Do them as fast as possible. Do;t worry too much about full range motion on the pushups and rows, speed is the important thing here.

[Verstyle]

I did pylometrics for 2 years with a boxing band resistor. It increased my speed and it's still there. Just did do **** for hooks.

[Othello]

Squats, lunges, deadlifts, cleans, snatches, stuff like that.

Sprints & plyometrics will help aswell.

Kettlebells are great for developing explosive power btw.

[rockymarciano1]

[mrboxer]

I have a gym membership and need ideas to condition myself for boxing. I've been doing 2 minute sets of push ups, situps, reverse crunch, russian twists, and various compound exercises (like squats.)

I need advice on ways to workout in a manner that's gonna help me with explosive power. Would doing heavy weight trying to push as fast as I can then stopping before i'm fully extended help me generate it? By heavy weight I don't mean anywhere near my max, I mean heavy for doing fast reps.

Think im barking up the right tree? I wanna get the right muscles trained correctly so when I do start boxing and learn how to throw my weight behind a punch i'll have an edge.

explosive power is not taught,you either have it or you dont,you can work on techniques to make your punches more coordinated,also get rid of the russian twist and start using the american waltz